Preserving the History of Park Ridge Since 1971

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The Society is pleased to announce that the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency has just signed off on our new plan for rehabilitation of the Solomon Cottage on the grounds of the former Park Ridge School for Girls. This plan provides the opportunity to preserve the...

The Park Ridge Historical Society has just completed an oral history of what it was like to be a teenager during World War II. Maine Township high school students from Maine East and West interviewed alumni who graduated from between 1945-1948 and asked them to share...